Improving Business Outcomes with Better Data Quality

Having bad contact data is a problem at many levels within most organizations. Yet, 23% of production databases have wrong customer data.

In this session, we will discuss the scenarios that can cause bad data to get into Dataverse; we'll discuss the impact of this bad data in your system and operations; lastly we'll show how using our Data Quality Tools can help you get close 100% good data and have a significant impact on businesses.

Let the machine read! Use Azure Computer Vision to enable text search from images in D365

Dynamics 365 users often upload documents in the form of pictures or scanned PDF into the application. This makes the content of these documents unsearchable.

In this session, we will do an overview of Azure Cognitive Services, with a focus on the Computer Vision API. Then we demonstrate a process that uses Flow to take the uploaded documents in D365 CE, scan them and return the text to D365 CE.

This session is technical. Recommended knowledge for attendees:
- Web services development/consumption
- Knowledge of Microsoft Flow
- Knowledge of D365 development

D365 Customer Engagement Integration with Virtual Entities

The Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement platform offers multiple ways to integrate data from external systems. One of the mechanisms that is under utilized is the Virtual Entities.

In this session, we dive deep into Virtual Entities : what they are, the different options available when using them with examples. Then, we share some tips on how to decide when to use them and how.

Learning Objectives:
- Understand what Virtual Entities are in Dynamics 365 CE and how they can be used a powerfull yet simple tool for data integration.
- Learn the types of data sources are available for virtual entities and understand how to use each of them.
- Determine when to use Virtual Entities based on a various set of variables in your organization and on your projects.

Supercharge your D365 Portals by adding payment processing capabilities

Dynamics 365 Portals offer a great range of features to expose Dynamics 365 data to the external world.

One of the things it does not do out of the box is provide the ability to take payments using credit cards by leveraging some of most popular payment processing APIs in the world. In this session, we will show the steps to expose an invoice and integrate payment processing to pay for the invoice.

Knowledge of Dynamics 365 Portals required. Understanding of development concepts and payments processing tools is recommended.

D365 Enterprise integration with Logic Apps

You regularly create integration process between Dynamics 365 CE and other Enterprise systems? You use code, SSIS? It's complicated? It requires highly technical skills? You want to simplify it? This session might be interesting for you.

We will discuss how Logic Apps can be used to archive complex Enterprise integration scenarios with low/no-code.

Level 200-300. It's expected that you are familiar with Dynamics 365 CE, systems integration and data modeling.

CDS Industry Accelerator Focus - Nonprofit

Microsoft and some of its global partners have made significant investments in CDS Industry Accelerators. These accelerators are ready to use, pre-configured CDS application that can help organization significantly accelerate their digital transformation and implementation process.

This presentation starts by providing an overview of the Accelerators program. We then take a look at how to get started with the accelerators (installing, test, review functionalities, staying up to date etc.). The final part is a demonstration of the basic functionalities.

The demo will be centered on the Non for Profit accelerator.